Month: April 2016

Fighting Clinton Won’t Save Big Coal

This is just a casual observation, but I think Sen. Rand Paul is misdiagnosing the problem in several areas: Paul, during a visit to Northern Kentucky Friday morning, said he will support whoever is the Republican nominee, even...

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A Marxist View of Trumpism

I strongly suggest that you read through the recent Counterpunch article Bring on the Crackup: Hoping for a Trump-Sanders Election at least once…it deserves and requires much more attention than that…before you read...

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Does Trumpism Have Any Shelf Life?

In one sense, I fear that Jeet Heer is correct. Once you open up Pandora’s Box, it’s not so easy to put its contents back in the container. This is a theme I’ve hit on repeatedly over the years, but it’s...

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The Karl Rove of Latin America

I really ought to go over to the dark side: Many of [Andrés] Sepúlveda’s efforts were unsuccessful, but he has enough wins that he might be able to claim as much influence over the political direction of modern Latin America as...

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